The 100-Day Bible Reading Plan

I made an announcement at “Knowing Jesus” this year from which I got a lot of feedback. I told everyone that next Good Friday, we would not do the same program we have done the last 2 years. Instead of doing a night of worship and teaching from Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, we were going to do a worship project with the text being the entire Bible. Instead of using only 6% of the books of the Bible, we are going to use 100% of them.

On April 3-4, 2015, North Side Worship will lead a time of worship with the working title being “The Word.”

The goal is for us to start in Genesis and end in Revelation. We believe that we can use this opportunity to do our best to tell the entire story of God’s redemptive plan in one evening and contained within one resource.

Your prayers are very much appreciated.

We have already begun conversations concerning the project but it is ramping up quickly. In addition to designated time of songwriting and arranging, the most pivotal thing is that we get in the Word.

So our team is going to do a study in the pivotal passages of the Bible, and I would like to invite you to join us.

Key Features

I searched for a chronological plan that would highlight key passages, and while there are many good ones out there, I chose to develop our own. While I think it is best to read the entirety of God’s Word, this is a good introductory plan for some of you or a good reminder of what you already know.

Here are some of the key features:

50 days in Old Testament reading

50 days in New Testament reading

Chronological in approach (which means skipping around in books since the Bible is not organized chronologically)

Writings attached to narratives (We read Psalm 51 after David’s sin with Bathsheba, we read Galatians 1-2 before the Jerusalem Council, reading through a letter of Paul following along what city he was in when he most likely wrote it, etc.) to get fuller picture

Days are fairly balanced in amount of reading (I attempted to make it manageable without losing the full beauty of pieces of the narrative; shortest will be less than one chapter, we will read through all 4 smaller chapters of Malachi in one day)

There are built-in days with lower volume of reading to help you catch up

We will begin on Monday, May 12

Ends on Tuesday, August 19

Even if you start and get bogged down, don’t quit, or even if you start late, it’s all good

It’s not a perfect plan, you will see things that you think could have been left out or should have been put in, but it’s the fruit of a lot of study, prayer, and work on my part

As our team begins to get in the Word, we will start organizing, writing, composing, and arranging this music.

Even if no event took place, this process is great for our team. I was so excited to see their excitement as we talked about it last night at practice.

My prayer for our worship team (band, vocalists, tech team, etc) is that when we lead this night of worship, that we will feel like we are barely scratching the surface that night of all the good things we have learned!

A Plan is Better Than No Plan

I told our band this and I will tell you this as well, if you have a plan, I’m not asking you to stop it.

If you don’t have a plan, my line of thinking is it’s better to have a plan rather than no plan.

Many folks in our ministry are going to do this with me.

I’ve also been encouraged by college students serving overseas that are going to use this as their personal devotional for the summer. I’ve had adults who are without a plan decide that 100 days is a manageable goal that they are going to attempt. I’ve had parents say they are going to use this for family devotions.

Some of our members are in a plan right now, and they are going to press pause on their plan to join us in this endeavor, and then jump back into their previous plan once we complete this one.

This is a process that our worship team will be going through this summer. If you are without a Bible reading direction right now, we would love to have you join us.